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The Foundry ships Nuke 8.0
Updated: release adds new 3D tools, in-panel colour wheels, overhauled Dope Sheet. See the videos here.
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Isotropix cuts price of Clarisse iFX to $999
For a single freelance licence, at any rate. Cost of standard node-locked and floating licences also down.
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Marmoset releases Marmoset Toolbag 2
Updated: Real-time render toolkit for games gets complete scene editor, support for physically based shaders.
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Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 3
Maya crowd-simulation system adds support for any non-humanoid character, new flocking behaviour.
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Thinkbox Software ships XMesh MY
New Maya version of the 3ds Max plugin for caching animated geometry speeds up work in mixed pipelines.
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Video: water effects in Unreal Engine 4
See how Epic Games set up the fluid and particle effects for its UE4 Infiltrator tech demo.
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Interview: DreamWorks FX veteran Alessandro Pepe
The versatile technical director discusses the key skills for today's TDs, and his tips for young FX artists.
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Knald Technologies releases Knald
Updated: New GPU-accelerated tool generates games texture maps from photographic source images.
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Chaos Group releases V-Ray 2.0 for Rhino
Update adds V-Ray RT GPU, plus bonus add-on with 200 readymade material and lighting set-ups.
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Amberlight lets you ‘paint’ with particle fields
New procedural art tool from the creator of Flame Painter generates arresting swirls, glows and light trails.
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Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla Render
Updated with more details: Download a free licence of the VFX renderer used by Prime Focus on Total Recall.
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So what is… The Foundry’s Modo Steam Edition?
Our summary of the tech specs cuts through some of the confusion about the new $149 modding tool.
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Basefount releases Miarmy 2.7
Maya crowd simulator adds support for compound bone systems, more advanced actor interactions.
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Evermotion releases Nox 0.40
Free unbiased renderer gets streamlined new GUI, new material editor and advanced colour picker.
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Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 1.3
Maya fur plugin adds procedural feather geometry, new grooming tools, support for OpenSubdiv.
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10 questions for… Attack FX founder Nick Hiatt
The matte painter on Oblivion and Thor: The Dark World faces our barrage of tech and career questions.
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Gnomon releases 200-minute lighting masterclass
Disney veteran Frederic Durand's Light and Shadow shows that good lighting is about more than just lights.
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How to spot a bad HDRI
Hyperfocal Design's Jay Weston explains how to spot duff HDR files - and two simple tricks to fix them.
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Thinkbox Software to bring Krakatoa to Cinema 4D
User-created C4D port to join 3ds Max and Maya as an official edition of the particle renderer.
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Eye candy: Main Road|Post’s Stalingrad VFX reel
Check out eight minutes of beautiful Houdini effects breakdowns from the epic Russian war movie.
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